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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Monday, August 20, 2012

Toy Society Drop: New York Botanical Garden

It's been a long time since I did an "official" Toy Society Drop*, but it's time to give some of the many many many stuffed animals in my Attic the chance at a new home. (I think Grandmary has been releasing some toys into the wild with the kids, but I don't have the details!)



My apologies to the gals trying to run the site down in Oz, who have asked for photo submissions via Flickr. I just can't sign up for one more social media thingy. The animals have taken over the zoo, and so I have to free them this way.



Who: Made and released by me, Auntie Nettie
What: Mr. "Don't Button-hole Me" Bear
When: Friday, August 17, 2012 at around 5:30 on a sunny evening
Where: New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, NY, somewhere near the Home Gardening Center



Hopefully Mr. Bear found a new home very soon.

Check out some of my earlier Toy Society toys submissions here.


*I left a surprise Toy Society rainbow bear in the Avalon beach rental in the game console, so hopefully it's been found by one family or another since then. It's been a few months, so hopefully!

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